This article is based on a question and answer session that Hannah Nydahl gave during a Preliminary Practices (Tib. Ngön Dro or Ngöndro) course. The Extraordinary Preliminary Practices, also known as the Foundational Practices, consist of four meditations done one after another. Each of them is repeated 111,111 times. They prepare one’s mind for more advanced meditation.
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This article is based on an excerpt of a lecture that Lama Ole Nydahl gave in 1994 in Edmonton, Canada. On that day, Lama Ole was giving teachings about the preliminary practices (Tib. Ngön Dro or Ngöndro), and this was an introduction to those teachings. The editors thought this would be the perfect introduction to the article which follows this one: the teachings of Lama Ole’s wife, Hannah, about Ngöndro. Please enjoy Hannah’s article for a more detailed explanation of the Ngöndro practices themselves.
This text has been adjusted to suit publication in a written format. The editors have the blessing of Lama Ole to work with his lectures in this way.
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The following article was originally published in Buddhism Today, Winter 2006 edition. It was based on an interview with Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl, conducted by Maxi Kukuvec and Michael Fuchs.
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The following text is a transcript of a portion of a lecture held at the 2003 Summer course in Kassel, in Immenhausen, Germany. During this course, Hannah Nydahl taught calm abiding meditation (Tib. shinay). Other excerpts of this lecture were published in Buddhism Today, issue 36, in 2015. The excerpt below now presents these teachings in relation to the 16th Karmapa meditation.
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The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published, updated edition of Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying by Lama Ole Nydahl. Reference is made here to the meditation on the Buddha of Limitless Light, which can be found in that book and can be learned at Diamond Way Buddhist centers around the world.
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Following a Mahakala initiation by His Holiness (H.H.) the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje in Karma Guen in August 2017, Nedo Rinpoche, the main Vajra Master of H.H. the 17th Karmapa, was asked to speak on the subject of protectors, powerfully protective wisdom aspects that express active compassion. Excerpts from this talk have been summarized here. Buddhism Today thanks Maggie Lehnert for working with Nedo Rinpoche and Bruce Underhill in preparing this text.
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This interview was conducted with Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche with translation by Vladislav Ermolin on July 9th 2017 at the Krasnoyarsk, Russia Diamond Way Buddhist Center on the occasion of the inauguration of the Stupa of Enlightenment. The interview was conducted by Blakesley Burkhart and Kathleen Dwyer.
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Editor’s note: In November 2009 Lama Ole Nydahl took a weeklong road trip from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of Diamond Way Buddhism’s activity in the upper Midwest of the USA and the inauguration
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This is a transcription of a question and answer session that H.H. Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche held at the Diamond Way Buddhist Center in San Francisco, CA, in the summer of 2006. Question: What would you say to someone who is
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In the last issue of Buddhism Today, there was an article by Hannah Nydahl on meditation, which was a transcription of a talk that she gave in San Francisco in 2002. That talk was followed by a question and answer session, which is presented here. Special thanks to Detlev Göbel for providing us with this text.
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